Trump Carries KY, As Well As Edmonson County In Caucus

A larger turnout than expected came out to vote at the Brownsville Community Center yesterday during the 2016 Republican Presidential Caucus with a total of 17% of total registered county republicans.

Donald Trump carried Edmonson County with a total of 531 votes, gathering 53% of the total. Trump also won statewide, carrying 35.9% of the votes.

Volunteers sort and count votes after the Republican Presidential Caucus.

County Republican Party Chairman Bob Kleier said he was pleased with the turnout yesterday. "There were some that didn't like the caucus, and some people said they weren't informed, but we really worked hard in trying to get the word out," said Kleier.

He said there was around 90 people waiting when the caucus opened at 9am and had a steady stream throughout the day. There were 1,001 total county votes tallied. "Everything worked out great and we had lots of great volunteers that worked well together. It was actually a lot of fun," he added. "We also have some good young people volunteering now as well, and we like seeing that for the future."

Two ECHS students, Eli Lamastus and Blake Hennion served as volunteer caucus officials and helped throughout the day. "Of course our caucus chairman, J.B. Hines did a great job as well," Kleier said.

L-R: Blake Hennion, Eli Lamastus, Bob Kleier, Shaska Hines

*County totals were:

• Trump   53.05%     531
• Cruz     20.98%     210
• Rubio   14.99%     150
• Kasich   9.09%     91
• Carson                   7
• Uncommitted       4
• Bush                       3
• Paul                        3
• Christie                  1
• Huckabee              1
• Fiorna                     0
• Santorum               0

*Statewide totals were:

• Donald Trump 35.92%    82,493
• Ted Cruz 31.57%               72,503
• Marco Rubio 16.36%       37,579
• John Kasich 14.43%          33,134
• Ben Carson 0.85%             1,951
• Rand Paul 0.38%                 872
• Uncommitted 0.22%          496
• Jeb Bush 0.13%                    305
• Mike Huckabee 0.08%       174
• Chris Christie 0.03%            65
• Carly Fiorina 0.03%             64
• Rick Santorum 0.01%           31

​Some other interesting stats:

• 229,667 Republicans voted in the Kentucky Republican Presidential Caucus.
• Total statewide turnout in the caucus was 18.0%, easily exceeding the 15.7% of voters who cast ballots in the 2012 presidential primary.
• 100 counties saw an increase in the number of voters who participated in the caucus compared to the 2012 presidential primary, with 42 counties increasing over 100%.
• Statewide, 30.4% more voters voted in the 2016 caucus than the 2012 presidential primary.
• More than 3,000 dedicated Republicans across the state served as volunteer Caucus Chairs and Caucus Officials
• 53,507 more Republicans voted in the Caucus than the 176,160 who voted in the 2012 presidential primary; 31,874 more Republicans voted in the Caucus than the 197,793 who voted in the 2008 presidential primary.

*courtesy of http://rpk.org/caucus/results/